Would You Put Eight Teaspoons of Sugar in Your Water?

We need labeling in teaspoons, not just grams. Who knows how much a gram is? If someone is caught putting cocaine in a child’s snack pack, they go to jail, as it should be. Yet an entire industry has been hiding copious amounts of highly addictive, poisonous sugar in our food. It may sound outlandish, but it’s true: for years, Big Sugar has been actively working to get Americans addicted to sugar, which is more addictive than cocaine—and not just through traditionally sweet items like candy. Now, foods that masquerade as health foods—low-fat yogurt, sports drinks, and many others—are loaded with sugar, and it’s making us drug-addicted and obese. Big Sugar can get away with this in large part because they can obscure the amount of sugar in a product by listing it in grams, rather than a more relatable measurement like teaspoons.

The food industry has engineered us to crave sugar. Industry insiders all but admit that the responsibility for today’s obesity epidemic lies largely at their feet. Tremendous amounts of research and investment have gone into making foods not just tasty, but so irresistible that consumers cannot control their cravings. For example, food companies have added sweetness to foods that aren’t typically sweet: bread, pasta sauce, and yogurt are loaded with sugar. The food industry intentionally creates products with the right “bliss points” of sugar in the hope that we get addicted, continuously buying their junk. In fact, studies have found that rats prefer sugar to cocaine—even rats that are already addicted to cocaine.

A large, flavored coffee can contain 25 teaspoons of sugar, three times more than what is in a 12oz cola;

Vitaminwater contains 32 grams of sugar, or 8 teaspoons;

A single cup of low-fat yogurt can contain up to 47 grams of sugar, which is 12 teaspoons.

The list goes on. The point is that, most people would not add twelve teaspoons of sugar to their yogurt, let alone 25 teaspoons of sugar in their coffee. The only way you can get most people to consume that much is by obscuring the information, which is what putting it in grams on the nutrition facts label does.

It should be noted that our addiction to sugar has in part been fueled by dieticians on the take from Big Sugar. The main narrative pushed by Big Sugar is that a calorie is a calorie, and obesity is a result of “energy imbalance.” Coca-Cola funded a non-profit to pedal this idea, but the government is doing it for them, too: the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website lists “energy imbalances” first in a list of the causes of obesity. We’ve noted the crony ties between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Big Sugar in previous articles. Registered Dietitians are in on this too. The trade association for Registered Dietitians is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), an organization that lists Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Kellogg’s among their corporate sponsors and that has endorsed Kraft Singles and small cans of soda as a snack. The game is rigged when the so-called “experts” telling us what to eat accept large contributions from companies pedaling sugar.

The same is happening all over the world. A recent investigation in Australia found that Big Sugar is using general practitioners to push industry propaganda disguised as dietary advice. A “fact sheet” sent to doctors from Kellogg’s, for example, advised a diet high in carbohydrates to patients with type-2 diabetes—advice that “borders on insanity,” in the words of one physician.

Make no mistake: all of this sugar is making us fat. When we consume more sugar than we need, the excess is converted by the liver to fat, and then distributed throughout the body for storage—in most people, places like the stomach and hips. When those areas become full, fat begins to spill over into your organs such as the heart, liver, and kidneys, which raises blood pressure, weakens the immune system, and decreases metabolism. (For more on this, check out our Scientific Director Dr. Rob Verkerk’s recent piece on this topic.)

There’s more. In the past we’ve covered the multitude of dangers associated with consuming sugar, but here are some highlights:

In light of these dangers, it is time to change how sugar is labeled on food packages. The FDA recently began revamping the nutrition facts label. It included reforms such as using larger fonts to indicate the serving size, servings per container, and caloric information, eliminating “calories from fat” since the type of fat is more important than the amount, and adding an “added sugars” line as a subsection of total sugars. These are some positive steps, but not enough—listing added sugars in grams continues to obscure the real sugar content of the food.

4 responses to “Would You Put Eight Teaspoons of Sugar in Your Water?”

No gluten/dairy/soy/sugar/GMO/food with a label…taking vitamins/good oils/minerals…probiotic…LDN..detoxing may help health. No gluten/GMO may help intestines absorb more nutrients. Sugar may swell the brain/body/slow mitochondria/lower the immune system/clog up blood vessels and feed bacteria infections etc..

Please be aware that labelling the plant source from which the cane sugar is derived is also integral to preventing rampant obesity from ramped up hyper-sugar consumption. BEET SUGAR is being added to products to replace high fructose corn syrup, and to minimize the cost to manufacturers for paying a living wage to sugar plantation workers on sugar cane plantations. BEET CANE is a CATTLE FATTENER used by farmers . So though the label says “”cane sugar” the now common substitute for sugar cane sugar is the addition of a percentage of beet cane sugar . As extremely fattening beet cane sugar may also entirely replace sugar cane sugar in products ; the so-called ‘cane sugar” label may be a misnomer and ultimately as lethal to consumers.as its horrible predecessor high fructose corn syrup.AMOUNTS are clearly important but what kind of cane sugar is vital label information too

I’m not really convinced this will make a difference. Too many people don’t look at the nutrition facts at all. If I saw label reading 32 grams of sugar, I’d know to stay away! Anyone eating or drinking something with that much sugar on the label probably hasn’t looked. In cases where I’ve actually told people (generally relatives) how much sugar is in their drink (and I read it in grams), they’re usually shocked. Or cases where sugar is the number 1 or 2 ingredient on the label. People just don’t read the labels, and if they do, they understand how much a gram is.

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